Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...moment in a young artist's life when he knows he has to bring something to the stage from within himself. He has to put in something in order to be able to take something out. Many performers are physically well trained but not morally disciplined and content onstage. They fall apart...
Unfortunately, The Towering Inferno is not content to think of itself as a combination of simple moralism, abstract beauty and adventure. Instead, it tries to be a public service film, a sort of Unsafe At An, Height. The fire chief leaves us with the impression that any building higher than seven stories is liable to become a towering inferno, without taking into account all the contrary evidence--that none yet has, and that what was wrong with the Tower was its poor construction, not its design. Yet we are asked to see the charred hulk of the Tower...
...reason we did it was not to change the whole system, but for our own internal consistency," he says. "We felt that if we were teaching a course of radical political content it would be inconsistent to use a conventional grading system...
Rita Arditti, professor of Biology and Genetics at the Union Graduate School, cited the "ideology of birth control" as an example of the political content of scientific research...
...Americans also found that their hosts, Cosmonauts Aleksei Leonov and Valery Kubasov, enjoy more luxurious living quarters than U.S. astronauts use at Cape Canaveral. For now, the world will have to be content with the astronauts' verbal descriptions of the little they saw at the space center. The Russians scheduled the visitors' arrival and departure to occur after dark, and requested that they leave their cameras in their hotel rooms...